SVH 5-Finger Hand

Facts

• Company: SCHUNK
• Product type: Hand
• Status: Commercial
• Capability focus: Anthropomorphic Gripping
• Website: https://schunk.com/sg/en/gripping-systems/special-gripper/svh/c/PGR_3161

Market context

Servo-electric anthropomorphic five-finger hand from SCHUNK.

• Target environment: Service robotics, assistance systems, research labs and advanced gripping applications.
• Workflow context: Anthropomorphic gripping, humanlike hand demonstrations and multi-finger manipulation.
• Customer context: Robot developers and automation teams needing an industrial supplier-backed five-finger hand.
• Deployment model: Commercial special gripper product within SCHUNK gripping systems.
• Commercial maturity: Series-production robotic hand from an established industrial gripping supplier.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on robot-arm integration, control needs, price and task suitability.
• Market position: Industrial automation supplier entry in anthropomorphic robotic hands.
• Adjacent products: SCHUNK grippers, Allegro Hand, Shadow Hand, RH8D

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Anthropomorphic gripping, humanlike hand demonstrations and multi-finger manipulation.

Capability

anthropomorphic gripping

Deployment environment

Service robotics, assistance systems, research labs and advanced gripping applications.

Specifications

• Form Factor: Anthropomorphic hand, 1:1 ratio to the human hand
• Variants: Left-hand and right-hand versions
• Number Of Fingers: 5
• Number Of Axes: 20
• Weight Kg: 1.3 kg
• Nominal Voltage V: 24 V
• Communication Interface: RS 485
• actuation and motion control: Electric, via servomotor
• Operating Principle: Spindle guides
• Finger Material: Aluminum alloy
• Housing Material: Aluminum alloy, coated
• Ip Rating: IP20
• Robot Connection: Bottom-side connection to SCHUNK FWK change system; communication and voltage supply via spring-loaded pins
• Software Support: ROS1 and ROS2 drivers available
• Workpiece Weight: Max. 0.85 kg for human-robot collaboration applications; higher workpiece weights may be permissible for other applications and form-fit clamping
• Total Dof: 20 DoF

Tags

• Peer Group: Robot Hand, Robot Hand Components
• Workflow: End Effector Manipulation
• Capability: Tactile Dexterity, Robotic Grasping
• Stack Layer: Manipulation stack layer

Timeline / Research

• 2024-11-29 - Research Publication - Dexterous handover paper implements reactive human-to-robot handovers on SCHUNK SVH - The paper presents reactive human-to-robot dexterous handovers for anthropomorphic hands. The abs…
• 2024-08-08 - Research Publication - DiPGrasp paper evaluates differentiable grasp planning on SCHUNK SVH hand - DiPGrasp combines parallel local searching with differentiable grasp planning for dexterous robotic hands.…
• 2023-04-26 - Research Publication - SVH Hand use-case paper builds a realistic simulation model for dexterous manipulation - The paper focuses on realistic modeling and simulation of a dexterous robotic hand. This is ou…
• 2020-10-26 - Research Publication - Spiking-neuron soft-grasping paper evaluates object grasping with SCHUNK SVH hand - The paper uses a spiking neural network to trigger reflexive grasping behavior on an anthropomorphi…
• 2020-05-21 - Research Publication - sEMG spiking-network paper controls SCHUNK SVH finger reflexes online - The paper classifies human sEMG signals and uses the output to trigger robotic finger reflexes. The abstract st…
• 2019-11-01 - Research Publication - Vision-based assistive-manipulator paper tests object-control strategy with SCHUNK SVH - The paper proposes vision-based control for a five-fingered manipulator in activities-of-daily…

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